[digitaltinfoil]

Protests let people at home who are feeling alone in their frustration that there are many more people who feel like them. I also felt like you did until someone framed it that way for me.

A protest isn’t supposed to be a singular event, it’s a series of events that crescendos into a movement—and it’s the crescendo that scares the people in power.

[DeathArrow]

Then, since there are more people who voted for the current administration, there can be even more powerful counter protests. Then we can have people fighting in the streets, then a civil war.

[dxdm]

Are you really trying to say that people should not protest, unless they are the overwhelming majority or easily ignored, because their protest will (or even just might) turn into a civil war?

[johnisgood]

Civil war may be a necessary war, eventually.

[astrange]

Crescendoing into a movement doesn't /do/ anything. This is just self-satisfaction for the kinds of people who like protesting.

Other things like voting and getting elected do actually do something.